Here is the address of the University of South Carolina Spartanburg. (USCS) The lecture is on Jan 22, 2004. I have sent a letter to their faculty and Student Newspaper editor, since no other e-mail address is available. I also sent it to the Chancellor at the same e-mail address. The University address is: University of South Carolina, 800 University Way, Spartanburg, SC 29303School website: http://www.uscs.edu/From the website: Dr. John C. Stockwell, Chancellor

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Few more phones and emails from the same University. Please find the shortest dial to the president of the University.

Twhaley@uscs.eduDr. John C. StockwellChancellorUniversity of South CarolinaSpartanburg, SC 29303

Dear Chancellor Stockwell:

It is truly shocking to read in the University's schedule a lecture to begiven by USCS historian Robert McCormick titled "Pavelic, Croatia'sFascist Dictator". It is hard to imagine what prompts this professor tobring up the subject while he obviously has not researched it fully.

Case in point is his statement about the WWII Croatian Nazi puppetstate's concentration camps. He mentions that 400,000 Jews, Serbs andGypsies were killed in the camps. By now every unbiased researcher andhistorian knows the fact that the actual number of concentration campvictims in Croatia was between 60 to 80 thousand, not 200,000 or 400,000.Every innocent victim is one too many, but such horrific exaggerations,thanks to Serb propaganda lies, are utterly outrageous. During the 1999trial of the Jasenovac camp commander Zakic in Zagreb, Croatia, thecorrect numbers were undisputed even by the Zagreb Jewish community.

The actual list of victims dates back to 1964, issued by the communistYugoslav authorities in Belgrade, who, being Serb-dominated, certainlyhad no wish to minimize Croatia's guilt. According to these data of theFederal Statistical Ministry of Yugoslavia - Center for ScientificDocumentation of the Institute for History of the Workers' Movement, -the total number of victims was appr. 59,000, and also revealed theiridentities, which is certainly more significant than any throwing aroundof fictitious numbers by anti-Croatian propagandists. As to Mr.McCormick's contention that Croatia had "the third largest concentrationcamp in Europe" that is too absurd to even merit a reply.

By no means is this letter meant to be an apologia for Pavelic, thewartime leader of Croatia who was installed by Mussolini's Fascists. Onlyabout 1% of Croatians welcomed his rule. Historically, for centuries,Croatia was never known as an anti-Semitic nation, yet its reputationsuffers to this day because of the four years under the Ustasha regime ofWWII, which was established by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, thatpursued their anti-Semitic policies. Ever since, this fact has been usedby its detractors to discredit Croatia in the eyes of the world.Therefore such lectures as planned by prof. McCormick only continue tomalign a whole nation and one has to wonder what is the purpose behindit.

Croats, and especially their Cardinal Stepinac saved hundreds of Jews andthe Cardinal publicly spoke against the camps and the killings of Jewsand Serbs. Does Mr McCormick ever mention the virulent anti-Semitism ofthe Serb Orthodox Church or the large concentration camps run by Serbs inSerbia during WWII, such as Sajmiste and Manjica, in which many thousandsof Jews were killed or handed over to the Germans? While Croatiaestablished a memorial to the victims in Jasenovac, Serbia paved overtheir camps, so no one would ever see them. Does he mention theHungarian, Rumanian and even French, among other European regimes inWWII, who delivered their Jewish populations to the Germans?

It should be in the interest of fairness, and even more specifically, ofhistoric accuracy, for your University to stop any such attempt ofdisinformation or simply Serb propaganda to be disseminated in the nameof "historical lectures".